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Re: [Ltru] 2.1: casing



> From: Phillips, Addison [mailto:addison at amazon.com]


> > This paragraph doesn't make complete sense to me:
> >
> > ---------------------
> > Although case distinctions do not carry meaning in language tags,
> > consistent formatting and presentation of the tags will aid users.
> > The format of the tags and subtags in the registry is RECOMMENDED.
> > In this format, all subtags, including all those following
> > singletons (that is, in extension or private-use sequences) are in
> > lowercase. The exceptions to this are: all other non-initial two-
> > letter subtags are uppercase and all other non-initial four-letter
> > subtags are titlecase.
> > ---------------------


> The registered variants are all lowercase. Private use and extension
> sequences normalize to lower case. If you read the paragraph again
> you'll see that it describes simple rules for implementing a casing
> algorithm for language tags that doesn't rely on the registry.

Perhaps that's the intent, but that's not at all clear from that wording. The wording says that *all* subtags are in lowercase.


Peter
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